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Who will look after older adults? We’ve loads of know-how but too few specialists

Who will look after older adults? We’ve loads of know-how but too few specialists

Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the many first physicians in america to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a physician who focuses on the care of older adults. “I understood the demographic imperative and the problems facing older patients,” Gurwitz, 67 and chief of geriatric medicine on the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical […]